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Genesee Brewing Company

🌍 United States · Regional · ★ Award winning · Known for a full range of styles
Award winningKnown for a full range of styles

Rochester's legendary brewery founded in 1878 on the banks of the Genesee River. The Genesee Cream Ale is one of America's oldest continuously produced craft-adjacent beers — a New York institution and the original American Cream Ale.

4Beers
2Styles
4.7%Avg ABV
1878Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
50%
catalogue avg 43%

Beers by Genesee Brewing Company

4 beers
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Genesee Beer
American Lager · 4.5%
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Genesee Cream Ale
Genesee Cream Ale
Cream Ale · 5.1%
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Genesee Honey Brown
Honey Brown Lager · 5.4%
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Genesee Light
American Light Lager · 3.8%
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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 4 beers in the catalogue.

Emerging signature · based on 4 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
clean
3 of 4 beers
crisp
3 of 4 beers
light
3 of 4 beers
malty
3 of 4 beers

With 4 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Varied4 beers · 2 style families
Lager 3Dark 1

A handful of styles across their range — a shared thread has to hold across each of them.

What sets them apart
Each beer measured against others of its own style, then averaged across the range. Compared with 519 other breweries making American Lager.
Three beers is enough for a first read, not a full house style — one unusual beer moves this a lot.
typical for American LagerGenesee Brewing Company
in no beersin every beer
hoppy
in none of their beers · typical American Lager brewery: 3 in 5
Absent — the field expects it.
sweet
in 3 of 4 · typical American Lager brewery: 2 in 5
Notably more sweet than typical.
Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 25%
average beer performance
1
beers in the Top 100
4 / 4
beers above the median
#11
best ranked beer
Genesee Cream Ale

Their beers place in the Top 25% of the catalogue on average, across 4 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.

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About Genesee Brewing Company

Rochester's legendary brewery founded in 1878 on the banks of the Genesee River. The Genesee Cream Ale is one of America's oldest continuously produced craft-adjacent beers — a New York institution and the original American Cream Ale.

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